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Date:      Sun, 27 Aug 95 8:54:44 EAT
From:      Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@lin.wsl.sinica.edu.tw>
To:        JOHN@gab.unt.edu (John Booth)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Elm and /var/mail
Message-ID:  <199508270105.SAA11952@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <D8FB800966@gab.unt.edu>; from "John Booth" at Aug 26, 95 2:03 pm

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> This has been bugging me for a while.  I can't get elm to
> work properly w/o making the permissions in /var/mail 777.
> I thought since elm was setgid and that /var/mail had group
> mail and elm was set gid that it would work ok that way...any thoughts
> on this...perhaps I have been compiling it incorrectly?...                               
I barely remember : compile it without setgid and the 2nd locking
scheme turned on and other locking options turned off.

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